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Labor/Employment

May 13, 2016

State getting increasing amounts of PAGA revenue

There is a mostly continual state revenue spike from the landmark 2004 Private Attorney General Act, but lawyers are divided over those numbers and where revenue is heading with a presumptive increase in PAGA filings and proposed changes in enforcement of the law.

By Matthew Blake
Daily Journal Staff Writer

There is a mostly continual state revenue spike from the landmark 2004 Private Attorney General Act, but lawyers are divided about what to think of those numbers and where revenue is heading.

Under PAGA, workers step into the shoes of the state attorney general and sue for labor code violations, which may include unpaid wages, missed meal or rest breaks or more esoteric...

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